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_Lloyd Pierce WILCOXON _|
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"Lloyd Wilcoxon was born May 11, 1821, in Scioto County, Ohio. His
grandparents, both paternal and maternal, were of English birth and owned
large tracts of land in that country. [This could only be true if we
consider Maryland to be part of England and the residents there to be
Englishmen]. His father, Lloyd Wilcoxon, Sr., was a native of Maryland
and served in the War of 1812. He was engaged in the carpenter's trade
in Ohio and died at Muncie, Ind., at the age of seventy five years. His
mother, whose maiden name was Elizabeth Truitt, was a native of Pennslyvania
and a lady of English antecedents. When in the eleventh year of his age
(1832), the subject of this biography came with his parents to Delaware
county, with whose industrial interests he afterward became very prominently
identified. Too young when he left Ohio to have enjoyed to any extent the
educational privileges of that state, he attended the subscription schools
of Delaware county during the winter sessions following his arrival. The
daily round of labor on the farm occupied the greater portion of his time,
and trained thus to early habits of industry, he grew up with a character
that taught him to love work, rather than to shun it. He soon became the
owner of a farm, in the cultivation of which he was engaged until 1852.
So successful were his labors that, in that year, he was enabled to come
to Muncie and engage in the purchase and sale of grain. In 1858 he added
the manufacture of flour, erecting a large flouring mill just south of the
Bee Line track, on Walnut street. To this he has added substantial
improvements from time to time, supplying it with the best machinery and
making it, in all respects, a first class mill. In 1883 the mill burned,
was afterward repaired, and now is uses as a hominy mill.
He is a strict temperance man, and carries his principles into his business,
employing no man who uses intoxicating liquors as a beverage. He has been
identified with the Methodist Episcopal Church since he was sixteen years
of age, and has proven himself a worthy exemplar of the faith he professes.
In 1854, he became a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows;
during that year he received all the degrees of the subordinate lodge and
encampment, and, two years later, he was chosen to represent both branches
of the order of the grand lodge of Indiana. His early political training
was in the democratic school but the platform and the principles of the
Republican party, at its organization, harmonized with his own views, and
he was among the first to join its ranks. March 28, 1842, he was united
in marriage with Miss Rhoda, daughter of Lewis Moore, an early settler in
Delaware county. This union was blessed with nine children-- Mary A.,
now deceased; Sarah E. is the wife of J. Milton Long; Amanda H. is the
wife of Henry Bowman; John W., deceased; Martha C., wife of W. H. Long;
Charles N.; Lydia J., wife of Thomas O. Cunningham, Zulena and Emma P.,
who reside with their parents.